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Who Named Pluto?

  • March 7, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

American astronomers discovered Pluto in 1930, but an 11-year-old English girl, Venetia Burney, named the heavenly body. She thought it should be named after the Greek god of the underworld and told her grandfather, a librarian who had lots of astronomer friends.

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